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LBSC 796/INFM 718R
Information Retrieval Systems
Spring 2011
Required Readings

• Peter Ingwersen and Kalervo Jarvelin, The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context, Springer, 2005. Read only Chapter 1.
• MRS Chapter 1: Boolean retrieval

• MRS Chapter 2: The term vocabulary and postings lists
• MRS Chapter 6. Scoring, term weighting & the vector space model
• Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer, Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce, Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies. Read only chapter 1.

• Stephen Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza and Michael Taylor, "Simple BM25 Extension to Multiple Weighted Fields," Proceedings of the Thirteenty ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 42049, 2004.
• Djoerd Hiemstra and Arjen P. de Vries, "Relating the New Language Models of Information Retrieval to the Traditional Retrieval Models," Technical Report TR-CTIT-00-09.
• Learning to Rank, Wikipedia. Also follow the link to Supervised Learning.

• Ryen W. White and Resa A. Roth, Exploratory Search: Beyond the Query-Response Paradigm, Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval and Services, 2009.
• Marti Hearst, "User Interfaces for Search," in Modern Information Retrieval, 2nd Edition, Chapter 2, Addison-Wesley Longman, 2010.

• Mark Sanderson, "Test Collection Based Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems", Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 4(4)247-375,2010.
• Filip Radinski and Nick Craswell, "Comparing the Sensitivity of Information Retrieval Metrics," Proceedings of SIGIR, pp. 667-674, 2010.

• MRS Chapter 19. Web search basics
• MRS Chapter 20. Web crawling and indexing
• Dennis Fetterly, "Adversarial Information Retrieval: The Manipulation of Web Content," ACM Computing Reviews, 2007.

• Diane Kelly and Jamie Teevan, "Implicit Feedback for Inferring User Preference, a Bibliography," SIGIR Forum, 37(2)18-28, 2003.
• MRS Chapter 21 Link analysis
• Yoshiyuki Inagaki, Narayanan Sadagopan, Georges Dupret, Ciya Liao, Anlei Dong, Yi Chang and Zhaohui Zheng, "Session-Based Click Features for Recency Ranking," Proceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1334-1339, 2010.
• Emily Steel and Julia Angwin, "On the Web's Cutting Edge, Anonymity in Name Only," Wall Street Journal, 2010.

• David Doermann, "The Indexing and Retrieval of Document Images: A Survey", Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 70(3)287-298, 1998.
• Toni M. Rath, R. Manmatha, and Victor Lavrenko, "A Search Engine for Historical Manuscripts," SIGIR 2004.

• National Information Standards Organization, "Understanding Metadata," 2004.
• Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall and Tim Berners-Lee, "The Semantic Web Revisited," IEEE Intelligent Systems, 12(3)96-101, 2006.
• Soren Auer, Christian Bizer, Georgi Kobilarov, Jens Lehmann, Richard Cyganiak and Xachary Ives, "DBpedia: A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data," 6th International Semantic Web Conference, pp. 503-517, 2007

• MRS Chapter 9: Relevance feedback and query expansion
• Joshua Goodman, Gordon V. Comack and David Heckerman, "Spam and the Ongoing Battle for the Inbox," Communications of the ACM, 50(2)24-33, 2007.
• Robert M. Bell and Yehuda Koren, "Lessons from the Netflix Prize Challenge," SIGKDD Explorations, 9(2)75-79, 2007.

• William Byrne, David Doermann, Martin Franz, Samuel Gustman, Jan Hajic, Douglas Oard, Michael Picheny, Josef Psutka, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Dagobert Soergel, Todd Ward and Wei-Jing Zhu, "Automatic Recognition of Spontaneous Speech for Access to Multilingual Oral History Archives," IEEE Transations on Audio and Speech Processing, 12(4), 420-435, 2004.
• Nicola Orio, Music Retrieval: A Tutorial and Review, Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval (1)1, 2006.

• Jian-Yun Nie, Cross-Language Information Retrieval, Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, Morgan Claypool, 2010.
• Douglas W. Oard, Peter Brusilovsky, Daqing He, Judith Klavans, Tomasz Loboda, Leiming Qian, Dagobert Soergel and Pengyi Zhang, "Formative Evaluation for Multilingual Multimedia Search and Sense-Making," Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation, Springer, 2011.

• Stefan Ruger, Multimedia Information Retrieval, Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval and Services, Morgan Claypool, 2010.
• Paul Over, George Awad, Jon Fiscus, Martial Michel, Alan Smeaton and Wessel Kraaij, "TRECVID-2009 Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms and Metrics," April 8, 2010. Available from the TRECVID Web site.